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The Preservationists

“It has lots of names: the wood house, the glass house, the James Bond house,” says Christian Harvey of Farnley Hey, one of Britain’s most notable midcentury modern homes, which Harvey and his partner, Victoria Davies, now own. “When it was built, it was like a spaceship had landed.”

The two-story, flat-roofed residence, wrapped in glass and wood, is indeed an anomaly among the traditional gray stone cottages

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